[Bug 83816] backlight maxed out when switching from X to a tty

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83816

--- Comment #12 from Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> ---
(In reply to Jani Nikula from comment #10)
> (In reply to Chris Wilson from comment #7)
> > The bug is that intel_panel_enable_backlight() always sets the max value
> > ignoring the current user value.
> 
> That's not really true. It sets the max value if the userspace set the level
> to minimum before the backlight was disabled. Why does the userspace insist
> on setting backlight to min before disable?

To put it another way: Why does the kernel insist on providing policy that
overrides userspace?

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